A biography for Nyjah Hustonhasn’t been written yet.
“As long as you're working hard for what you love doing, you'll have a good chance of getting somewhere with it.”
“I was too young to really remember it, but at one time, my family lived in Hawaii and Fiji because my parents wanted us to be exposed to different cultures and alternative lifestyles.”
“I won the biggest amateur contest when I was 10, and I was into X Games the next year. And then I was in a 'Tony Hawk' game the next year!”
“A lot of the time, you know you can do a move; it's just really hard to get that first try out of the way.”
“I'm the type of person who always has to be doing stuff. I have a hard time relaxing.”
“People assume they know you but they don't.”
“I only drink coffee when I'm actually feeling tired. I've never wanted to become dependent on it, to be one of those people where I wake up and have to have coffee.”
“I wish I could skate every single day.”
“I don't like to think of myself as famous because us skaters, we think of ourselves as normal people. But I really do have to be more careful about what I do and the way I set examples for everybody.”
“I do try to floss everyday cause it's obviously good for you and healthy.”
“Let it Flow is a water charity that my mom and I started back in 2011. We focus mostly on building and the majority of the time, repairing wells because of the insane amount of the number of wells out there in the world just need to be repaired by simple parts.”
“I like skating big stuff, and you need the power to get on those obstacles and take the impact coming off. You need the strength to take the hard falls.”
“My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision to leave.”
“Honestly so much money gets taken for taxes from contest winnings that you have to be smart with it. People think that because I won 200 grand, I actually got 200 grand, but a big chunk of that gets taken out. You have to be very smart with your money.”
“I'm thankful to be a mixed racial person in skateboarding. I'm part Japanese too, so when I go over to Japan everyone loves me there, when I go somewhere where there are a lot of Black people they'll love me there too.”
“Ethiopia is beautiful. The people are so positive.”
“I'm stoked that the Olympics finally put skateboarding in there. I was always a little confused about why it wasn't in there in the first place considering that snowboarding and other similar sports were in the Olympics.”
“Even though skateboarding is considered a sport now and it is going to be in the Olympics for the first time, you always have to realize what got it there and what's going to always be important.”
“Learning a new trick will just happen randomly when I'm skating and if I feel good doing it, I take it to a street spot. If I'm really confident in it I practice it a lot, so I can do it in a contest.”
“Skateboarding is something that I've loved ever since I started when I was five years old.”